/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 package org.kuali.rice.kew.api.extension;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Identifiable;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned;

 import java.util.Map;

 /**

  * Defines an extension to some component of Kuali Enterprise Workflow.

  *

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface ExtensionDefinitionContract extends Identifiable, Versioned {

     String getName();

     String getApplicationId();

     String getLabel();

     String getDescription();

     String getType();

     /**

      * Retrieves the resource descriptor for this extension.  This gives the calling code the

      * information it needs to locate and execute the extension resource if it needs to.

      *

      * @return the resource descriptor for this extension, this value should never be blank or null

      */

     String getResourceDescriptor();

     Map<String, String> getConfiguration();

 }